More Than Friends

Chapter III

After taking a long and hot shower that helped him relax from an emotionally charged day, Su Yu entered the room as if nothing had happened. He planned to pretend that the previous conversation never happened. He was afraid that he would say something that he'd regret and didn't have the strength to argue with Wu Bi. But it turned out that the room was empty.

Su Yu saw a small note on his desk: "I went out for karaoke with friends. I made dinner earlier. It's in the fridge." Su Yu sighed as he headed to the kitchen.

During the night, he was awakened by a noise in the hall. Still drowsy, Su Yu turned on the bedside lamp and checked the time on the small clock next to him. It was after midnight. He quickly got out of bed and moved towards the sound. He turned on the hall light and saw Wu Bi. Completely drunk.

Su Yu watched speechlessly for a moment as Wu Bi struggled with his scarf to take it off, while trying his hardest not to fall over. However, Wu Bi was losing this unequal fight. In his current state and without Su Yu's help, it would either take him an hour to take it off or he would end up lying knocked out on the floor. The latter was more likely.

"Here, I'll help you," Su Yu said. Wu Bi froze for a moment and then continued staggering. If it weren't for the wall behind him, he would have fallen by now.

"Suuu Yuuu...why aren't you sleeping?" he stammered in a whisper.

"Someone woke me up," Su Yu replied, rolling his eyes as he unwrapped Wu Bi's scarf from around his neck and unbuttoned his jacket.

"Who? Who dared to wake you up?" Wu Bi asked in a conspiratorial whisper, clearly not understanding the sarcasm in his inebriated state. "Who dares to wake up my Su Yu?!" he suddenly shouted with full energy.

"Quiet! Others want to sleep!" Su Yu scolded him, as he continued struggling to remove his jacket, while also holding Wu Bi to keep him from falling to the floor.

"What others?!" Wu Bi took a hesitant step forward, as if to check if anyone was in their room. Su Yu had to use more force to get Wu Bi to lean against the wall, using it as a support.

"The other students who live in the rooms next door, Wu Bi," the older boy replied. "Lean against the wall and don't move." Su Yu made sure that Wu Bi held onto the wall for leverage as he helped him take off his shoes. "Come into the room now. Time to sleep."

"I don't want to sleep," Wu Bi complained. "Let's go visit Duo!" he suddenly shouted with drunken enthusiasm, and then tried to turn towards the exit.

"The only thing you can visit now is your own bed." Su Yu's patience was quickly running thin. He eventually dragged Wu Bi to his bed, but with great difficulty.

He could still hear Wu Bi muttering something under his breath in his drunken frenzy. "Su Yu is mine. Su Yu is only mine," Wu Bi repeated. But Su Yu didn't think much about these words. Perhaps it was because he had never seen Wu Bi in this state before. Completely plastered. Su Yu was already mentally scolding himself for what he was about to do, but he desperately wanted to find out what was wrong with Wu Bi lately. And since the sober Wu Bi didn't want to talk to him, Su Yu decided to seize this opportunity.

Su Yu sat Wu Bi on the bed and started pulling his sweatshirt over his head while asking, "Wu Bi, do you want to tell me something? Like, is something bothering you?"

"I can't," Wu Bi muttered.

"Why not?" He lifted Wu Bi's other arm, finally freeing him from his warm sweatshirt, leaving only his undershirt on.

"Because it's a secret. Shhh. Su Yu can't know. Don't tell Su Yu about this." Wu Bi tried to put his index finger to his lips as a sign of secrecy, but he fell back onto the bed.